| Keith C. Perry on 23 Aug 2015 13:14:18 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] FOSSCON communication ops |
Yoikes... now that is what I call a filter. Jim, great talking to you again! Last night I fell asleep digging into the SDR stuff- that and trying to decide if my next gift to self was going to be a 3-ch or 4-ch little helicopter- don't laugh, its call stress relief so its medically necessary! Mostly the SDR stuff though :D I'll be picking up a dongle sooner than later. My ham links folder just grow- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Keith C. Perry, MS E.E. Owner, DAO Technologies LLC (O) +1.215.525.4165 x2033 (M) +1.215.432.5167 www.daotechnologies.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Fisher" <jedijf@myfisher.org> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2015 2:43:03 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] FOSSCON communication ops filters removed - rss feed email reading officially failed/dead bad idea..... You have 7531 unread posts On 8/23/15, Jim Fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org> wrote: > So sorry I haven't kept up with reading this list. > > Rich, I would have let you touch an HT at FOSSCON. I hope your just > looking might have inspired you to re-consider getting a license. > > Also, the one laptop in front of the HT's was running an SDR app for > ADSB using an SDR dongle. > > I was using a new live image, skywave linux, but probably more > interesting to you is that the Pentoo distro has many SDR apps > builtin. At least the ones that meet their philosophical requirements. > > http://www.rtl-sdr.com/skywave-linux-new-linux-ubuntu-distribution-made-for-software-defined-radio/ > > http://www.pentoo.ch/ > > tons of good sdr info: http://sdr.ninja/ > > On 8/16/15, John Kreno <john.kreno@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not very involved in the community here, but I might pop into this. I >> was very un-aware there were this many hams lurking in this community. >> >> 73 to all of you out there >> >> -John N3XKD >> >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Rich Freeman >> <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Jim Fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org> wrote: >>> > Last year was my first FOSSCON as an amateur. >>> > >>> > We went, what some thought was a little 'ham heavy'. >>> > >>> >>> I think the topics are somewhat related (just as things like 3D >>> printing), but I'd focus on the areas that are most closely related. >>> If somebody did a talk on Linux-based SDR that would be a great >>> tie-in. Etc. >>> >>> If I see somebody walking around with a radio I'll have to get caught >>> up on how things have changed. Back in the early 90s I was >>> considering getting a license. I see they dropped the code >>> requirements, and that was the main thing holding me back (I was >>> really trying to go for the novice license and not the technician one >>> at the time). I had a pretty good teacher in my father (who was >>> transmitting CW while driving long before texting was in fashion), but >>> it was still a lot to learn. >>> >>> -- >>> Rich >>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >>> http://www.phillylinux.org >>> Announcements - >>> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>> General Discussion -- >>> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> John Kreno >> >> "Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary >> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin >> > > > -- > jim fisher > Jedijf > KC3BRA > > irc freenode #ubuntu-us-pa > www.myfisher.org > > "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" > -- Jedi Master Yoda > -- jim fisher Jedijf KC3BRA irc freenode #ubuntu-us-pa www.myfisher.org "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" -- Jedi Master Yoda ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug